Fritz had some issues to work out. Poetry, music, and dogs only go so far: therapy via history-writing is important too!
Quite. :) And hey, cheaper than F1's own therapy which involved lots of ceremonies and splendor. (And ordering a copy of the Dauphin's wedding suit for his son.)
re: the poison suspicion, another who believed this had happened was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel who wrote in his diary when F1's brother Ludwig had died that it surely was poison - and this predates F1 visiting Kassel by months, so F1 isn't the source of the idea (and Sophie isn't, either.) It was the mental equation people drew out of the combination of the big and unforgotten Versailles scandal and knowing that relations between the Elector and his sons from the first marriage were going downhill, plus the usual reflex of stepmother/woman blaming.
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Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: The Affair of the Poisons (Prussian Edition)
Date: 2021-08-08 02:02 pm (UTC)Quite. :) And hey, cheaper than F1's own therapy which involved lots of ceremonies and splendor. (And ordering a copy of the Dauphin's wedding suit for his son.)
re: the poison suspicion, another who believed this had happened was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel who wrote in his diary when F1's brother Ludwig had died that it surely was poison - and this predates F1 visiting Kassel by months, so F1 isn't the source of the idea (and Sophie isn't, either.) It was the mental equation people drew out of the combination of the big and unforgotten Versailles scandal and knowing that relations between the Elector and his sons from the first marriage were going downhill, plus the usual reflex of stepmother/woman blaming.